Response to Sea Breeze’s response to Avisha

“In fact conflict in the work place is unhealthy and leads to anxiety issues and depression”(Sea Breeze, 2018).

I could not help but comment on this given my background as a psychiatric nurse.  In my personal experience working in mental health nurse and now as a coordinator, I have learned one very important lesson.  This is to validate and encourage employees and colleagues.  Often times management spends a lot of time, looking for flaws and I have first-hand witnessed this at my work places.  This builds resentment from staff towards management and then leads to low mood, and sick calls for staff.  When staff members are not appreciated or told they are appreciated they don’t often look forward to coming to work.  Their performance isn’t as good as it could be due to lack of motivation.  This later builds conflict amongst their team members.  Then the toxic gossip starts about each other and management.  Conflict will happen no matter what, and it can’t be avoided, but how we communicate our concerns constructively has an impact on conflict outcome.  At the end of the day, everyone should be heard as each opinion matters.

“In public education, all of our meetings happen outside of our work day on our free time after school is out. This is one grey area that I do not feel is right. Teachers should get paid to attend meetings that go outside of our scheduled work hours” (Sea Breeze, 2018).

I think you have made a great point.  When meetings happen outside of work, and are unpaid, it is not very appealing.  I would not attend any meeting I am not paid for.  I recall when I was in the community mental health setting all of our meetings were once a month during working hours.  Time is very valuable and we all have families and other priorities.  Therefore, unpaid meetings are unfair and should never happen.